Stress

Stress is the natural respond to protecting a person from imminent threat.

Though in some cases it is possible to ignore stress, it would be much better to reduce it or to control it.

There are two main ways of stress control: healthy and unhealthy. It is very important to be able to distinguish them. Bad or unhealthy stress usually brings to distresses.

Stress is a general syndrome of adaptation that is a result of danger, challenge and environment changes, the idea of which has been elaborated and developed by a Canadian naturalist and biologist Huns Selien.

He distinguished eustress from distress. According to Selien stress is a special respond reaction of the organism to any environment changes: a special signal. The reason that brings to stress is called “stressor”.

All the signals affecting the organism may cause adaptation demand and regardless of the result, they recover the normal state of the organism: the balance (homeoestase), which ia disbalanced because of the signal. And, as Selien confirms, it is this special demand that makes the essence of stress.

It would be more interesting to get acquainted with reactions that are caused by stress than to know the theoretical discussions concerning it.

We suggest to take time and try to evaluate the degree to which you are subjected to stress.